“Discard/Displace” 1996 A custom-built room covered with pages of Art History. A modified book triggers video and sound when opened by the viewer.		Brad Thomas Installation artist "Currently, my artistic focus is to design and build rooms within a gallery to alter the viewer’s perceptions of interior space. Through the manipulation of the walls, floor, ceiling, and objects in the fabricated room viewers are challenged to reconsider the space around them. By including sound and treating the surfaces of the room with collaged material, paint, or video projections, any concrete reference to a traditional exhibition space is eliminated. This displacement of viewers in the physical space causes them to participate with the art and develop a heightened visual awareness of the outside world. A North Carolina Visual Arts Fellowship is pivotal at this time. It allows me the opportunity to experiment with new technologies and produce maquettes for interactive installations." Brad Thomas has a Bachelor of Creative Arts from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He lives in Charlotte and is the exhibition coordinator at The Light Factory. Photo: Peter C. Slosson Return to the NC Artist Grant Award Recipients for 1998-99
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